Mrs. Clark's case / [Sarah Clerke].

  • Clerke, Sarah.
Date:
1718
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Credit: Mrs. Clark's case / [Sarah Clerke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fuch licentious Practices fhould prevail, what can we expert, but that a terrible Perfecution may loon be fet on Foot by the violent Inquilitors of Moor fields y who upon the moll (lender and inconclulive Suggeftions, may fend out their inhu¬ mane Officers to leize, confine and tor¬ ture any Perlons, whofe Underftandings It hey (hall pretend are fallen to decay, or who upon the flighted Grounds, and from dilhonourable Views, are by near .Relations informed againft as frantick Hereticks, and Apoftates from natural. Light and common Senfe. It is an Inftance of great Oppreffion and Inhumanity for the Doctors, upon fuch infignificant and frivolous Allegati¬ ons as were brought againft Mrs. Clark, to take away her Liberty and treat her with Violence, as a Diftrafted Perfon ; for if upon account of fome Singularity in Manners, any peculiar Oddnels of Temper, or whimfical Caprice, which however did not appear in this Cafe, (Perlons may be taken up by the Li£tors land Apparitors of Bedlam, may be chain’d,
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